Attachment for telephone-desks.



.0. W. 00011111111. ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONE DESKS.

APPLICATION FILED MARJZ. 1910.

Patented .Ian.31,1911.

CHARLES WILLIAM CbCHRAN, 0F ATHENS, TENNESSEE.

ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONE-DESKS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented J an. 31, 1911.

Application filed March 12, 1910. Serial No. 548,903.

[0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES IV. COCHRAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Athens, in the county of McMinn and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful Attachment for Telephone-Desks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in attachments for telephone desks and the object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicient means whereby a pencil may be held within convenient reach so that the noting of telephonic messages may be proceeded with without delay.

The invention consists in certain novel features which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a telephone desk showing my attachment in position thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the pencil-holding attachment removed from the desk. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing a pencil held by the attachment. Fig.4 is a detail sectional view of the device.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a base or block 1 having a plurality of out wardly-projecting arms or lugs 2 through which securing screws may be passed into the telephone desk to secure the device rigidly in position thereon. The block 1 is preferably circular in form and is covered by a metallic plate 3 to prevent wear on the same and to ive it an ornamental appearance, the said covering plate being secured on the block by means of headed tacks or similar fastenings 4. Disposed centrally over the cover 3 is a spring coil 5, arched as shown in Fig. 4, the convolutions of which extend on a curved line from end to end of the spring, as indicated by the dotted line 6-6 in Fig. 2, in a plane parallel to the top of the block and at a. right angle to the plane of the arch described by the spring and the ends of the wire from which the spring is formed are inserted through the block 1, as shown at 7, and have their extremities bent under the block, as at 8, whereby the withdrawal of the said ends of the spring from the block will be positively prevented. The arching of the spring and the curving of the same between its ends render the device very eilicacious as when a straight pencil is inserted through the several coils, as inclicated in Fig. 3, a strong frictional contact between the pencil and the inner surface of the several coils will be afforded so that the pencil will be firmly held and cannot be accidentally dislodged and lost.

My device is exceedingly simple and in expensive, and the use of the same, together with its many advantages, are believed to be obvious and to need no further detailed mention.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and that such changes may be made when desiredas are within the scope of the claims appended hereto.

I-Iaving thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the base, a coiled spring having the terminals of the wire forming the spring secured to the base at opposite sides of the spring and beyond the sides of the spring, said spring being arched above the base and also having its coils arranged on a curved line from end to end of the spring in a plane parallel to the top of the base, the ends of the spring being open, whereby when a pencil is inserted longitudinally through the spring, frictional contact is established between the pencil and the coils of the spring.

' 2. A pcncil-holding attachment for telephone desks consisting of a block provided with means for securing the same to the desk, and a coiled spring disposed above and secured to the block and having its coils so disposed as to extend between its ends on a curved line in a plane parallel with the top of the block when not in use.

8. A pencil-holding attachment for a telephone desk consisting of a block adapted to be secured to the desk, and a coiled spring arched over the block and having its coils extending between its ends on a curved line in a plane at a right angle to the plane of minals of the spring being extended in oppothe arch described by the spring, the ends of site directions and secured in the block. the spring being inserted through the block In. testimony, that I claim the foregoing and turned against the under side of the as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signa- 5 block. ture in the presence of two Witnesses.

4. A- )encil-h0ldin attachment consistin of a bl ock having n ieans for securing th: CHAS VILLIAM OOCHRAN' same to a desk or other support and a coiled Witnesses: spring arched aboxge the block and having J. O. FORGE, 10 its coils arranged on a curved line, the ter- E. L. ROBERTS. 

